So does anyone know what Lyssie Powell looks like? She's been on a couple of episodes of Nash Bridges.

Her IMDB page has nothing. Google search comes up with nothing. Would be helpful to know if she even resembles the corpse or not.


Also, not to nitpick, ok well I'm nitpicking, on the website... you'd not only want to remove this line..

o The corpse is being credited as Blond in Bed played by Lyssie Powell.

But you would want to move the entire webpage out of the "Cast" category and over into "Studies" or "Properties".

If you're going with derekfnord's interpretation of this, then the Corpse isn't a character played by someone in the cast. It is a prop.

Basically there's lots of places on the website that gives people the impression that Lyssie Powell is the corpse.

It's odd, because even iMDB credits Lyssie Powell as "Blond in Bed (Corpse) in #17". But that's clearly not what the actual credits say:



Of course, it's also distinctly possible that the credits are simply mistaken; that it should be "Blonde" instead of "Blond," and should be listed between Woman in #12 and The Magician. The credits presumably aren't perfect, since they list Bob Brooker as "Bob Booker"...

ctyankee wrote:

kmkmiller wrote:According to the folks at mulholland-drive.net the Blond in Bed is the corpse.

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/cast/corpse.htm

• The corpse is being credited as Blond in Bed played by Lyssie Powell.

Blu / Bob,

We should change it on the website as currently it comes across as fact (with its link to the credits). Not only is it not fact, but as derekfnord mentions ... it is illogical.

If it's not a mistake and the corpse is not Blond in Bed played by Lyssie Powell, we are faced with two problems. Firstly, we have to assume Lynch had a dummy placed in that bed to throw us off. How does that work in the context of the movie? And secondly I wonder where else to look for the actress Lyssie Powell. Until there's a logical explanation for this I'd go with Occam's razor and assume a mistake in the order of credits.

kmkmiller wrote:So does anyone know what Lyssie Powell looks like? She's been on a couple of episodes of Nash Bridges.

Her IMDB page has nothing. Google search comes up with nothing. Would be helpful to know if she even resembles the corpse or not.

Well, she played 'Candi' in a 1999 TV movie called 'A Vow to Cherish'.

Google video search: CLICK ME

There's a trailer on YouTube, and the whole thing on some other video hosting site it looks like. I'm at work at the moment, so can't do the necessaries, but perhaps someone can have a look through and grab some shots?

I don't know if discussing reactions is off-topic -- but:

On re-watching the movie this week, I was actually surprised that we saw the corpse for as long as we did: the lingering impression I had from the other half-dozen times I watched it was that we only got a brief glimpse of it, first from behind, then from in front..

and even though we got more of a pan around from both views, it was still one of the most horrifying things in the movie -- a combination of the implied smell, the build (even though you kind of knew what it had to be), the stickiness of the shadows in the room, and Rita's reactions.

blu wrote:Would be helpful to know if she even resembles the corpse or not.
Well, she played 'Candi' in a 1999 TV movie called 'A Vow to Cherish'.

Google video search: CLICK ME

There's a trailer on YouTube, and the whole thing on some other video hosting site it looks like. I'm at work at the moment, so can't do the necessaries, but perhaps someone can have a look through and grab some shots?

Well, Sherlock, I couldn't resist my curiosity and dug into 'A Vow to Cherish'. According the credits this character called 'Candi' comes next to 'Cristi' played by Shal Verini. They appear at the 38 minute mark in this stream.

*** EDIT ***

Sorry, my mistake. That girl is indeed "Cindy" played by Nikki Boyer.
So, I dug into this lousy picture once more and found the lost girl at the 6 minutes mark:
Here she is
This is the blond in bed
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PS. Sorry for the confusion;)

Wow! What I find.

But I watched it and the guy she's with says "Last night I asked Cindy to marry me."

So that is Cindy.

played by Nikki Boyer who has a big website and everything.

http://nikkiboyer.com/

We need a volunteer to sit through this and determine who the Candi character really is.

Just thought these might help this discussion.

Corpse discovered by Betty and Rita:


Blond in Bed discovered by the Cowboy


Corpse discovered by the Cowboy.


Diane waking...


Notice that the two corpse are EXACTLY the same shot. The gunshot marks and creases in the bedsheets give it away - the corpse the cowboy discovers is from the pilot. I suspect that the Blond in Bed (Lyssie Powell) was shot to reproduce the corpse alive as closely as possible.

Just a guess but the Blond in Bed shot is SO similar to the Corpse shot (look at the light coming through the curtains) that I would guess it was shot during the making of the pilot.

Diane waking up (with the different headboard) was, I guess, shot during the making of the additional scenes for the film.

I haven't seen the pilot but Blond in Bed doesn't feature in it, according to the main site. If it was shot during the making of the pilot then it would suggest David Lynch got that shot in the can because it would be/might be useful later. No major conspiracy here, I just imagine Lynch gathering images to build things later, as indeed he did.

Siku wrote:Notice that the two corpse are EXACTLY the same shot. The gunshot marks and creases in the bedsheets give it away - the corpse the cowboy discovers is from the pilot. I suspect that the Blond in Bed (Lyssie Powell) was shot to reproduce the corpse alive as closely as possible.

Problem being, that (sleeping) woman has rather dark hair. The corpse's kinda blond. If the hair color is not some kind of clue, why putting it in the credits instead of "Woman in Bed"?
The only unmistakeable blonde in bed would be Naomi Watts' character waking up.

I don't know, I think this is a dead rabbit hole.

The sleeping women has hair about as blonde as the corpse prop. Lyssie (who played the BiB) is listed at the right point in the credits. The spelling of 'Blond' just tells us that Lynch didn't personally type set the credit, no suprise. (We know he uses the spelling 'Blonde' because of the pilot script).

But, really, even Mr David Lynch isn't so obscure as to put a clue in by dropping an 'e' off a word with optional spelling, halfway through the closing credits when everyone's leaving the theatre. I mean, maybe I've been influenced by those dismissive podcasters, but, really, come on!

I think you are right Siku, but it's frustrating because they are three images Lynch went out of the way to put in the movie and it takes place at such a crucial point in the movie. And I'll be the first to admit my analysis of the movie has no explanation at all for the first image (or at least a very lame explanation).

So I give us a pass for going down this rabbit hole.

Simple explanation: The corpse is Diane Selwyn. She's not really dead tho is she? i.e the blond in bed flicking to the corpse and back... We see a non-dead Diane because the death is metaphorical.

She's dead... she's alive... she's dead... she's alive...

Then Diane awakes.